"It Gives Me Great Pleasure" 1955 BEATON, Cecil Slim Aarons during the Prohibition era

during the Prohibition era

Wine & Spirit Publications

Jacket design by Michael Turner

Clients have included Ringo Starr

"It Gives Me Great Pleasure" 1955 BEATON, Cecil Slim Aarons during the Prohibition eraBEATON, Cecil [214] pp. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1955 8 3 4" x 5 3 4" VG VG In the winter of 1952 3 and for six weeks in 1954 Beaton completed two lecture tours of America, combating his nerves and delivering his speech to a string of Ladies Clubs across the continent. It Gives Me Great Pleasure is an account of his adventures on these tours. The book is as much about discovering the people and places of America as it is about the lecture tour itself.